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The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat collects over one hundred interviews with employees of the Democrat, including editors, reporters, feature writers, cartoonists, circulation managers, business managers, salespeople, pressroom managers, typesetters, and others, from the 1930s through the early 1990s, when the Democrat took over the Arkansas Gazette after an aggressive newspaper war. This new addition to Arkansas journalism history provides vivid details about what it was like to work at the old Democrat. August Engel, who led the paper with focused devotion for forty-two years, was famous for his thrift, allowing no air conditioning in the newsroom, and paying sub-par wages. In spite of these conditions, there are tales here of dedicated journalism professionals endeavoring to do good work. Readers who remember the final acrimony between the two papers may be surprised to learn that for many years the Democrat and the Gazette owners operated under a tacit agreement of civility. The papers didn't hire each other's staff, for example, and when a fire broke out in the Gazette pressroom, Democrat management offered the use of its press. Staffers recall that when the Gazette struggled with an advertising boycott and reduced circulation during the Little Rock Central High crisis because of its perceived progressive editorial stance, which infuriated many Arkansans, the Democrat did less than it might have to capitalize. The eventual newspaper war saw the end of any semblance of civility when the Democrat hired an aggressive and infamous managing editor named John Robert Starr who began giving away classified ads, printing more news, and changing publication from evening to morning. Through these firsthand stories of those who lived it, The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat tells the story of how the number-two paper became the unlikely number one, forever changing not only Arkansas journalism but also Arkansas history.
American newspapers --- History. --- Arkansas Democrat gazette --- Arkansas.
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Doelstelling: Wat zijn de motieven van de grootste donoren uit het bedrijfsleven aan de Amerikaanse verkiezingen van 2006? In welke mate zijn de grootste Amerikaanse politieke partijen afhankelijk van de bedrijven die hun verkiezingscampagnes sponsoren en wat is de invloed van deze donoren op de Amerikaanse politiek. Middelen of methode: De gegevens van het Center for Responsive Politics waren zeer belangrijk voor deze studie. De classificaties en de cijfers die door deze onafhankelijke organisatie verschaft worden zijn afkomstig van de U.S. Federal Elections Commission, een overheidsinstelling die controleert hoeveel Amerikaanse bedrijven uitgeven aan verkiezingscampagnes. Die rangschikking vormde de basis voor deze studie. Om de motieven van de grootste geldschieters uit het bedrijfsleven te achterhalen, moest een beroep gedaan worden op tal van bronnen. Enerzijds waren boeken en artikels nodig om een algemeen beeld te kunnen vormen. Anderzijds waren de bedrijven die behandeld werden in deze studie ook een bron van informatie, zowel wat hun politieke doelen betreft als die van hun belangrijkste concurrenten. Daarnaast moesten rapporten en wetteksten van het Amerikaanse Congres bestudeerd worden om de impact van wetswijzigingen op deze bedrijven in te schatten. Amerikaanse overheidsinstellingen zoals de Senaat, het Huis van Afgevaardigden en het Witte Huis beschikken allemaal over hun eigen databanken die alle wetsvoorstellen, wetten, rapporten van het Congres en rapporten voor het Congres bevatten. Deze studie kreeg haar uiteindelijke vorm door al deze bronnen samen te brengen en hun relevantie nauwkeurig af te wegen. Resultaten: De advocatensector, de arbeidssector en de communicatie/electronicasector steunen vooral de Democratische Partij, terwijl de Republikeinen gesteund worden door de bouwsector, de transportsector, de gezondheidssector, de energiesector, de financiële sector en de agro-industrie.De Republikeinen worden vooral gesteund door bedrijven uit de industriële sector, terwijl de Democratische Partij voornamelijk gesteund wordt door bedrijven uit de dienstensector. Bovendien wordt deze tweedeling nog versterkt doordat het net die bedrijfstakken zijn uit de dienstensector die de grootste belemmeringen vormen voor de sectoren die de Republikeinse ideologie genegen zijn. Relatief veel Amerikaanse politici zetelen in de bestuursraden van bedrijven. In sommige sectoren is deze vaststelling uitgesprokener dan in andere, maar de algemene conclusie is dat de invloed van deze politici in veel gevallen vrij groot is. Daarnaast moet worden opgemerkt dat lobbyen een heel belangrijke factor is binnen de Amerikaanse politiek. De bedragen die bedrijven hieraan besteden liggen algemeen veel hoger dan de sommen die ze schenken aan hun favoriete politieke partij en ook de invloed van de lobbyisten zelf is vaak erg groot.
Campaign contributions. --- Companies. --- Democrat. --- Elections. --- Financial support. --- Lobbying. --- Maatschappij en instellingen. --- MeSH. --- Politics. --- Republican. --- United States.
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Christian democracy --- Christian democratic parties --- Christian democratic parties --- History --- History --- International cooperation --- History --- Christian Democrat International.
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Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) --- Liberal Party (Great Britain) --- Social Democratic Party (Great Britain) --- Liberal Democrat History Group (Great Britain) --- Liberal Democrats. --- Liberal Party. --- Social Democratic Party (Great Britain). --- History --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Politics and government
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"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-the "faith czar"-John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television evangelist standing before him. Now he was, as he recalls in his introduction-"responsible for assisting the president in faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully acting in the public interest without regard to religious identities." Using his brief tenure in the George W. Bush administration as a springboard, this lively, informative, and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to what degree church-state separation is compelled by the Constitution. Avoiding political pieties, DiIulio makes an impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading political scholar, Godly Republic offers a fast-paced, faith-inspired, and fact-based approach to enhancing America's civic future for one and all.
Christianity and politics --- Religion and politics --- United States --- Church history. --- academic. --- afterlife. --- american history. --- catholic. --- catholicism. --- christian faith. --- christian living. --- christian. --- christianity. --- civic. --- community initiatives. --- democracy. --- democrat. --- faith based community. --- faith based. --- faith. --- heaven. --- morals. --- political scholar. --- political. --- politics. --- religious identity. --- scholarly. --- televangelist. --- united states history. --- us history.
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Newspapers --- Newspaper editors --- Newspaper ownership --- Ownership of newspapers --- Newspaper publishing --- Press monopolies --- Editors --- Journalists --- Ownership. --- Heiskell, John Netherland, --- Gannett Company. --- Gannett Co. --- Gannett Group --- Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark. : 1889) --- Arkansas gazette, Little Rock. --- Arkansas Democrat gazette --- Arkansas gazette, Little Rock
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Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists know very little about how they actually work. In Talking about Politics, Katherine Cramer Walsh provides an innovative, intimate study of how ordinary people use informal group discussions to make sense of politics. Walsh examines how people rely on social identities-their ideas of who "we" are-to come to terms with current events. In Talking about Politics, she shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and stronger social ties. Political scientists, sociologists, and anyone interested in how politics really works need to read this book.
Political sociology --- United States --- Communication in politics. --- Discussion. --- Group identity. --- Political sociology. --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Group discussion --- Conversation --- Debates and debating --- Meetings --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Political communication --- Sociological aspects --- political, social studies, identity, self, america, american, daily life, discussion, discourse, conversation, parties, democrat, republican, disagreement, argument, controversy, controversial, group, interpersonal, relationships, sociology, sociologist, academic, scholarly, research, interaction, news, contemporary, modern, 20th century. --- United States of America
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The role of Congress is essential to any study of American government and politics. This introductory text, aimed at undergraduate students, looks at the workings of the US Congress and uses the Republican period of ascendancy (1994-2000) as an example of how the Congress works in practice.
United States. Congress. --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Legislative Branch --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- United States. --- History. --- United States --- Politics and government --- legislation --- America --- Politics and government. --- Legislative process --- Law --- Politics --- Government --- History, Political --- congress --- democrat --- america --- republican --- United States Congress --- White House --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- 1994 election. --- American government. --- American politics. --- Clinton impeachment. --- President. --- Republican. --- United States Congress. --- budget deadlock. --- committee system. --- senators. --- Political science.
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John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned with public management. The fourth, social mobilization, draws on utopianism, anarchism, historical materialism, and other radical thought and looks to the structural transformation of society "from below." After developing a basic vocabulary in Part One, the author proceeds in Part Two to a critical history of each of the four planning traditions. The story begins with the prophetic visions of Saint-Simon and assesses the contributions of such diverse thinkers as Comte, Marx, Dewey, Mannheim, Tugwell, Mumford, Simon, and Habermas. It is carried forward in Part Three by Friedmann's own nontechnocratic, dialectical approach to planning as a method for recovering political community.
openbare ruimte. --- ruimtelijke ordening. --- Environmental planning. --- Political planning. --- Planning. --- Bentham, Jeremy. --- Comintern. --- German Historical School. --- Hitler-Stalin pact. --- James, William. --- Jeffersonian democrat. --- Keynesian economics. --- Law of Three Stages. --- Mao Tse-tung. --- Marxists. --- New Harmony. --- Pareto optimum. --- action. --- artificial intelligence. --- bureaucracy. --- calculation. --- capital restructuring. --- collective self-reliance. --- critical theory. --- dialogue. --- engineering. --- federalism. --- feminism. --- historical materialism. --- humanistic psychologies. --- implementation. --- industrialism. --- knowledge. --- life space. --- political community. --- rationality. --- social anarchism.
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